Slick Rick Scott has some nerve running this fradulent ad

Rick Scott, the Republican candidate in Florida's gubernatorial race, is attacking his opponent for having worked for a company whose securities division was charged for fraud.  The new ad from Scott's campaign notes that "Sink's bank was forced to pay back $30 million for fraud charges."

The ad is noteworthy not only because it's highly misleading (Democratic challenge Alex Sink had no connection to the securities division connected to the fraud) but also because Scott ran a company charged with one of the largest medical fraud schemes in American history.


As the Florida Times-Union's Abel Harding notes, "Sink headed NationsBank's Florida division, not exactly the same as running the entire company like Scott did."


Scott, an ardent opponent of health care reform (he once claimed that reform would result in women giving birth in the streets), is trying to tie his opponent to something that he himself did.  In 1993, federal authorities started looking into allegations that Columbia/HCA, a health care company Scott founded in 1987, was defrauding the government.


After an investigation, the company ultimately admitted to "systematically overcharging the government" and "exaggerating the seriousness of illnesses."  In a settlement, Columbia/HCA agreed to pay more than $1.7 billion in both civil and criminal penalties.


At the time, that was "the largest amount ever secured by federal prosecutors in a health care fraud case."


source: http://politicalcorrection.org/?src=mmbx




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